Shakespeare’s version of the Adam/gentleman joke comes from the famous Gravedigger scene in Hamlet V.i: GRAVEDIGGER: There is no ancient gentlemen but gard’ners, ditchers, and grave-makers. They hold up Adam’s profession. [Second Gravedigger]: Was he a gentleman? GRAVEDIGGER: He was the...
It has long been known the ancient Egyptian rulers, or pharaohs, were buried with great ceremony and lavish treasures that were to be used in the other world.Unfortunately, until 1922 no remains of any of the pharaohs or their treasures had ever been found. In that year, however, an ...
By the first century AD, the Romans had conquered so much of the Western world that it seemed there was nobody left to fight with. This led to a period of peace known as the Pax Romana. The Roman armies kept the peace, even clearing the seas of pirates. Local rulers maintained some...
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